Government seeks to tackle issue of sex education

File - Beijing - September 1999 1. Tilt down to wide shot of Wangfujing street 2. Mid shot of shop window 3. Mid shot of old lady sat next to a couple 4. Pan right from elderly's face to couple in embrace File - Beijing - 11 July 2001 5. Couple on bicycles kissing File - Shanghai - 1999 6. Couple in embrace Beijing - 25 February 2002 7. Wide sot of Sino-UK Sex Education conference 8. Close up on Sex Education booklet 9. Mid shot of attendees 10. Jackie Green speaking to audience Beijing - 27 February 2002 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jackie Green, Principal lecturer in health education and promotion at Leeds Metropolitan University: "But I think the key issue is to develop programmes that really fit the needs of the Chinese youth and enable them to cope with the social and cultural changes that are happening and to deal with these positively." File - Beijing - October 2001 12. Pan left of Beijing nightclub File - Unknown location 13. Woman dancing at nightclub Beijing - 25 February 2002 14. SOUNDBITE (English) John Tripp, Senior lecturer and head of the Child Health department at the School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter: "One of the sad, and I'm sure unplanned, influences of the media is that they portray a very unrealistic and very unreal picture of sex. The average American teenager is said to view about 14-thousand episodes of simulated intercourse and these will be very brief encounters because of the criteria of the media in which the encounters occur. Only a few seconds is allowed for any episode within a soap (opera) and so if it is sex, it is very brief." File - Unknown location 15. Close-up of mother at hand millstone 16. Boy leaving house (mother in background) 17. School building in village 18. Interiors of classroom with children singing Beijing - 27 February 2002 19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Chen Yi yun, Professor at Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "The three British experts are in China for the first time and they don't know that much about the situation here. When we talk about parent's participation in sex education here, China faces more difficulties than Britain because most Chinese parents live in the countryside." Beijing - March 2002 20. Wide shot of Green Apple teenage sex-education clinic 21. Close up on sign 22. Boy waits in waiting room 23. Cutaway pictures on the wall 24. Boy being given a proficiency test by nurse 25. Doctor speaking on the phone 26. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Dr Wu, Green Apple clinic for teenagers: "As far as our society goes, the schools have not provided enough (sex education) knowledge to our children about what they should do. So it is very necessary to educate them (in this) through newspapers, magazines as well as by opening such a clinic as this." 27. Pan from clinic to parents walking their children home from school STORYLINE: Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organisation rubber stamped China as an emerging economic powerhouse, satisfying its desire to join the global community. Likewise, a growing middle class has enabled more of Beijing's young to enjoy freedoms incomparable to the days of the cultural revolution. But as the nation embraces foreign capital and ideas, changes within Chinese society seem inevitable. Attitudes towards sex and relationships amongst China's young, especially for those in the cities, can now be very different to the traditional ideas held by older generations. Sensing this, the government wants to tackle the issue of sex education and has invited speakers from abroad to help develop a system of learning for China's youth. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/17ef12a8a62e6034537256b8532772fa Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork